Richmond native and Virginia alum Jason Williford has been promoted to associate head coach on Tony Bennett’s UVA basketball staff, the school announced Tuesday.
UVA announced Tuesday afternoon that head men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett has promoted Jason Williford to associate head coach and Orlando Vandross to assistant coach.
In West Virginia’s GOP Senate primary, candidate Don Blankenship is running on a different kind of record. The former CEO of Massey Energy served a one-year sentence, ending in May 2017, for conspiring to violate mine health and safety standards in connection with the nation’s deadliest coal mining explosion in decades. “Maybe I’m wrong, but I still think a conviction for murder would prevent someone’s election,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Boards owe it to the employees of their organizations to engage their corporate compliance and HR committees in a review and refresh of sexual harassment policies and investigative procedures, as well as diversity and inclusion programs. "A board ought to look at itself on an ongoing basis," said R. Edward Howell, a UVA professor of public health sciences. "When an executive is dismissed, that's a very appropriate time [for a board] to look at itself and ask, 'How are we doing? How are we setting the tone? Is it possible that the board had some failing that led to this misconduct or harassment...
In Iraq, Facebook is not just an adjunct to online life, it is online life. Up until recently, when YouTube started to compete, Facebook had a monopoly on Iraqi social media. But as a business, Facebook obviously has an agenda that is about more than just connecting people. Facebook’s “core functions are to deploy its algorithms to amplify content that generates strong emotional responses among its users and then convert what it learns about our interests and desires into targeted ads,” writes Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship. In Iraq, those strong em...
Piedmont Community Services, a local publicly funded provider of mental health and substance abuse services, will take part in the program, which will be managed by the UVA Health System’s Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth.
Grabbing onto the gun issue is a relatively new move for Virginia Democrats, says Kyle Kondik, the director of communications at UVA’s Center for Politics. “In general, the gun control issue has become more salient,” he says. “If you’re looking for a way to distinguish yourself against a more prominent opponent, turning to the left on guns is a place to go. We’ve seen that in other parts of the country, and we’re seeing it in this Virginia race, too.”
In its first-ever national competition, a UVA cybersecurity club team placed first. The Cyber Defense Team spent two days fending off hacks of a mock business at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in Orlando, Florida.
UVA’s quiz bowl team, which won the National Academic Quiz Tournament last year, only placed No. 16 at Saturday’s competition in Chicago. Yale University placed first in the Division 1 category. Team captain Eric Xu said a small shuffling of points would have put them in the top bracket, and he’s confident in a top-five finish next year.
UVA psychologist Timothy Salthouse recently completed a study that examined the consequence of age-related cognitive declines and found that there is no evidence that cognitive ability declines with age.
Philip J. Stenger, the state climatologist and director of UVA’s climatology office, said the NRDC report “brings up a lot of important points. We’re not going to simply warm up everywhere, although temperatures are rising. … The idea that we could be facing more intense allergy seasons is likely. … Overall, these are issues that should be looked at.”
UVA's Office of Sustainability held the biggest event focusing on the environment of the year on Tuesday: its annual Earth Week Expo. Attendees learned about the top 100 strategies for reversing global warming.
The study formulation, experimental design and data analysis were performed by biomechanical engineering consultants selected and appointed by the NFL and NFLPA. An independent biostatistician, Dr. Timothy McMurry, an assistant professor of biomechanics in UVA’s Department of Public Health Sciences, assisted in the analysis of the data.
The South Atlantic Conference Presidents Council announced today that the University of Virginia’s College at Wise will join the SAC effective July 1, 2019, following a unanimous vote by the council to approve its application for membership.
Like most young baseball fans, Parker Staples' room is covered in Nationals gear, but unlike most 9-year-old kids, Parker's room is at the UVA Children's Hospital. Parker got the chance to sign with the UVA baseball team just a month after finishing chemotherapy.
Peggy Whitson, an Iowa native, spent more time in space than any other U.S. astronaut. On Earth, Idaho native Lisa Davis oversees U.S. operations of Siemens, a powerful German-based conglomerate. Mississippi native Oprah Winfrey grew up to become one of the most powerful and influential women in the world. They join TV host Katie Couric of Virginia in a new report that lists the most inspirational women in the world. Couric, a University of Virginia graduate, began her career in journalism as an assistant at the ABC network.
UVA also received a grant from NEH, receiving $460,000 to produce 52 Classroom Connection radio episodes with educational outreach campaigns. UVA’s Waitman Beorn, a lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History, also received $6,000 in a summer stipend grant for research and writing “Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv[, Ukraine].”
Could it be an investigation that peters out without expanding beyond Rosenberger and spreading through the GOP legislature? Maybe. "We'll have to wait to see if this scandal has legs like the Crofters scandal in 1970 and Coingate in 2006,'' says Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics and a native Ohioan. "It has potential."
A UVA neuroscience lab may have discovered how to load immune cells into the brain to battle neurodegenerative diseases without the need for radiation. The researchers were able to send macrophages – large immune cells that target and destroy infections – into the brains of mice, a feat previously believed impossible without radiation.
Across Charlottesville, UVA also planted a tree and recognized Yen House, a dormitory, on Friday. The building has been renamed to honor Yan Huiqing, known as W.W. Yen, the first Chinese student to earn a degree from UVA, who went on to serve as China’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union and as a delegate in the League of Nations before serving as China’s premiere five times. At noon, Jefferson medals were presented to David Adjaye, an architect, and Frank Easterbrook, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, as well as Fowler.